Cocoa beans — Area harvested by country
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area...
What the numbers show
Cocoa beans — Area harvested is currently reported for 64 countries. The highest value is 3.81 million ha in Côte d'Ivoire; the lowest is 0 ha in Tonga.
The median across all reporting countries is 7,324 ha, and the mean is 175,994 ha.
Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Democratic Republic of the Congo (up 934.1%), and the largest decrease in Jamaica (down 81.0%).
Cocoa beans — Area harvested: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte d'Ivoire | 3.81 million ha | 2024 | up 23.7% | volatile |
| 2 | Indonesia | 1.39 million ha | 2024 | down 19.7% | volatile |
| 3 | Nigeria | 1.30 million ha | 2024 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 4 | Ghana | 919,824 ha | 2024 | down 45.4% | rising |
| 5 | Cameroon | 642,244 ha | 2024 | down 10.1% | rising |
| 6 | Brazil | 617,168 ha | 2024 | down 12.3% | rising |
| 7 | Ecuador | 541,588 ha | 2024 | up 45.3% | rising |
| 8 | Sierra Leone | 198,714 ha | 2024 | up 351.6% | volatile |
| 9 | Colombia | 197,709 ha | 2024 | up 48.3% | rising |
| 10 | Peru | 189,602 ha | 2024 | up 77.8% | volatile |
| 11 | Liberia | 182,495 ha | 2024 | up 245.0% | volatile |
| 12 | Caribbean | 128,433 ha | 2024 | down 35.9% | rising |
| 13 | Melanesia | 127,342 ha | 2024 | up 0.6% | rising |
| 14 | Papua New Guinea | 113,593 ha | 2024 | up 2.3% | rising |
| 15 | India | 111,036 ha | 2024 | up 56.4% | volatile |
| 16 | Dominican Republic | 103,774 ha | 2024 | down 31.2% | rising |
| 17 | Uganda | 103,197 ha | 2024 | up 57.5% | volatile |
| 18 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 84,675 ha | 2024 | up 934.1% | volatile |
| 19 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 77,391 ha | 2024 | up 17.0% | flat |
| 20 | Congo | 53,617 ha | 2024 | up 197.8% | volatile |
| 21 | Mexico | 52,274 ha | 2024 | down 12.3% | falling |
| 22 | Guinea | 50,901 ha | 2024 | up 154.5% | volatile |
| 23 | Sao Tome and Principe | 43,874 ha | 2024 | up 45.2% | falling |
| 24 | Philippines | 33,055 ha | 2024 | up 174.7% | volatile |
| 25 | Togo | 25,336 ha | 2024 | up 0.8% | volatile |
| 26 | Madagascar | 23,481 ha | 2024 | up 92.0% | volatile |
| 27 | United Republic of Tanzania | 20,907 ha | 2024 | up 29.1% | volatile |
| 28 | Nicaragua | 16,726 ha | 2023 | up 123.0% | volatile |
| 29 | Solomon Islands | 10,754 ha | 2024 | down 11.9% | volatile |
| 30 | Dominica | 10,705 ha | 2024 | up 65.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 10,397 ha | 2024 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 32 | Costa Rica | 7,783 ha | 2024 | up 63.9% | volatile |
| 33 | Honduras | 6,865 ha | 2024 | up 56.0% | volatile |
| 34 | Malaysia | 6,203 ha | 2024 | down 61.5% | volatile |
| 35 | Haiti | 6,142 ha | 2024 | down 79.5% | volatile |
| 36 | Equatorial Guinea | 5,887 ha | 2024 | down 33.0% | volatile |
| 37 | Guatemala | 4,533 ha | 2024 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 38 | Cuba | 3,937 ha | 2024 | down 5.2% | falling |
| 39 | Viet Nam | 3,122 ha | 2024 | down 49.6% | falling |
| 40 | Vanuatu | 2,909 ha | 2024 | down 10.8% | rising |
| 41 | Angola | 2,894 ha | 2024 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 42 | Panama | 2,847 ha | 2024 | down 47.3% | rising |
| 43 | Samoa | 2,632 ha | 2024 | up 4.4% | volatile |
| 43 | Polynesia | 2,632 ha | 2024 | up 4.4% | volatile |
| 45 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,930 ha | 2024 | down 35.7% | volatile |
| 46 | Gabon | 1,815 ha | 2024 | down 45.0% | volatile |
| 47 | Timor-Leste | 1,728 ha | 2024 | down 2.7% | volatile |
| 48 | Sri Lanka | 1,689 ha | 2024 | down 22.3% | volatile |
| 49 | Guyana | 1,175 ha | 2024 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 50 | El Salvador | 875 ha | 2024 | up 26.4% | rising |
| 51 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 826 ha | 2024 | up 4.7% | rising |
| 52 | Jamaica | 722 ha | 2024 | down 81.0% | falling |
| 53 | Belize | 533 ha | 2024 | down 24.8% | volatile |
| 54 | Grenada | 343 ha | 2024 | down 73.4% | volatile |
| 55 | Suriname | 160 ha | 2024 | down 3.6% | volatile |
| 56 | Comoros | 130 ha | 2024 | up 6.6% | rising |
| 57 | Fiji | 86 ha | 2024 | down 3.4% | volatile |
| 58 | Micronesia | 82 ha | 2024 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 58 | Micronesia (Federated States of) | 82 ha | 2024 | up 1.2% | rising |
| 60 | Saint Lucia | 54 ha | 2024 | up 500.0% | volatile |
| 61 | Thailand | 43 ha | 2024 | up 2.4% | volatile |
| 62 | Martinique | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
| 62 | Guadeloupe | 0 ha | 2006 | — | volatile |
| 62 | Tonga | 0 ha | 1992 | — | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 11.01 million ha
- Africa 7.48 million ha
- Western Africa 6.49 million ha
- Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs) 4.98 million ha
- Americas 1.86 million ha
- South America 1.64 million ha
- Asia 1.54 million ha
- Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs) 1.46 million ha
- South-eastern Asia 1.43 million ha
- Middle Africa 837,640 ha
- Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 757,861 ha
- Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 306,089 ha
About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.